Insights and Stories of FBC staff

Sep. 30, 2008 at 6:12 pm CDT

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board has granted Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) regulatory approval to buy control of the Dakota, Minnesota and Eastern Railroad Corp. Calgary-based CPR, which announced the ruling in a release Tuesday, noted that the board “denied all requests for conditions other than those agreed to voluntarily by […]

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Sep. 29, 2008 at 11:11 pm CDT

Saskatchewan farmers have again steamed ahead of their five-year average pace for harvesting, while harvests in central and eastern Manitoba ground — or more accurately, squished — to a halt. Widespread rains stopped harvest for much of last week in Manitoba’s south-central and southeastern regions and in its already waterlogged […]

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Sep. 29, 2008 at 10:43 pm CDT

Funding for organic farming, “green” farming, farmer co-ops and farm safety nets are on Jack Layton’s to-fund list in the New Democratic Party’s new agriculture platform. NDP leader Layton released the party’s full platform Sunday in Toronto, with just over two weeks before a federal election. Among other points, the […]

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Sep. 29, 2008 at 5:39 pm CDT

The Yukon government plans to shift its land planning branch to its energy, mines and resources (EMR) department to “improve the disposition of land” to territory residents. That branch, now part of the community services department, will move to EMR effective April 1, 2009, the government said in a release […]

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Sep. 29, 2008 at 5:31 pm CDT

Natural Valley Farms, one of several bids in the wake of BSE to boost beef slaughter capacity on the eastern Prairies, has gone into receivership, according to Saskatchewan media reports last week. CBC Saskatchewan on Thursday quoted company director Henry Skjerven as saying investors lost control of the company after […]

By FBC staff